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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else want to know if it’s the same poster using the phrase choosy beggar? They can’t stop.  I keep checking back just to see if it’s posted again now.  [/quote]

Let me entertain you, Karen. Would you like some choosing with that begging? lol.

Please tell us more about the time you took other kids and paid all expenses.

Did they share an ice cream with you? No? What inconsiderate brats![/quote]

I take kids out all the time especially after sports and school stuff.  I pay for it all.  It’s odd to me to have a kid with you and not pay. [/quote]

There’s one thing to take a couple of kids for a $5 ice cream and a whole another thing to expect everything paid for an overnight sports camp. Not the same thing at all choosy beggar![/quote]

Op was not paying for everything.  Another family fully paid one hotel room. The three boys or four could have shared that room or her son be in her room. She said the boys all had money for food.  Op already had to pay for gas and tolls.  She choose to not share a room, and put two kids to a room.  Very strange when she says she’s not rich and got financial aid for her kid.  Most of us would have pick a closer camp or one with housing.[/quote]

What a sneaky choosy beggar! Don’t you think for a second we don’t see right through your little games. You don’t just send your kid to the camp and in the end you’re like “I’m not paying, that’s too much, I wasn’t expecting that!” Trying to come up with whatever pretense to evade paying!

No, before you send your kid, you contact your parent and say, “This is my budget, I’ll pay only for a quarter of a hotel room because at least three other kids must share the room with mine, two in each bed. If they don’t want to share a bed, I packed an inflatable mattress for my kid. I won’t help with the gas and tolls, cause you’d pay for it anyways. If other family pays more than their exact share, let me know and I’ll deduct it from what I owe you.” I bet most other parents will be very receptive to this approach because it’s very transparent about your expectations.

It’s really easy to set up the terms beforehand, but you won’t do it because you want a free ride, you choosy beggar. lol[/quote]

I don’t think there are many parents that will agree with these terms, but if you’re so bizarre about your expectations for the trip you should be upfront about it. They probably didn’t say anything because they wanted to mooch off the other parents.

My kid would not be ok with sharing a bed with another teen, and I wouldn’t be either. [/quote]

What does your kid do when they go on school trips or they don't go?  Its pretty common to do four kids to a room.  Given what they charge it should be two kids to a room but you pay for the teachers and their favorite parents as chaperones, and a huge fee to the company arranging it.[/quote]

They’ve never had to put 4 kids in a hotel room for school trips, but I’d gladly pay for a full bed so he won’t share. I can’t imagine what that hotel room with 4 teens in it would look like. Unless it’s his best friend, he doesn’t want to share the room either,  because kids tend to stay up late and he hates that, he’s a morning person, up at 6 am. On camping school trips he got his own two person tent, and he loved it.
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DP but what school does your kid attend? Mine have always had 4 to a room for every school trip and every travel sports team.  They go to FCPS and have been on different club teams for sports, all involving travel.  4 in a room, 2 in a bed or 1 sleeps on a floor or couch if they don’t want to share.  [/quote]

Public school. If the room is $200, then it’s $100 per kid if it sleeps 2, or $50 per kid if it sleeps 4. Saving $50 a night is not worth it.[/quote]

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